The BERA Blog was established in 2015 to provide research-informed content on key educational issues in an accessible manner.

It has become second nature: when a question arises, the first thing we do is reach for our phones and access one of the plethora of internet platforms, where we may reliably assume that we ...

With the UK Labour government commissioning Professor Becky Francis to review England’s national curriculum, we have an opportunity to reconsider not just what children should learn but how.

Parental engagement significantly boosts children’s academic success, with evidence from around the world demonstrating an average of four months of additional progress over a single ...

This SIG is interested in the relationship between research and policy in education This SIG provides a space for BERA members interested in the relationship between research and policy in education.

A research-informed pedagogy Case-based learning (CBL) bridges the gap between theory and practice by immersing students in real-world scenarios that are grounded ...

The Race, Ethnicity and Education Special Interest Group challenges systems of oppression that demean and threaten to erase educators and learners of Global South heritage, through discussion and ...

Luke Jackson is a part-time EdD student at the University of Warwick and a full-time Appropriate Body Lead for the Star Teaching School Hub (Birmingham South). Luke is a qualified secondary ...

Fiona Patrick is a senior lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Glasgow. She is a member of the Cultures, Literacy, Inclusion and Pedagogy research and teaching group (CLIP) ...

Savannah Gill is a class teacher at a small primary school in Cambridgeshire and a student at the University of Cambridge. Her dissertation explores how play-based writing pedagogy influences ...

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